Abdul Quader Molla

Abdul Quader Molla (14 August 1948-12 December 2013) was a politician who was the leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party in Bangladesh. During the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, Molla commanded the pro-Pakistan Al-Badar militia and was responsible for the deaths of 344 people. He was tried and executed by hanging in 2013.

Biography
Abdul Quader Molla was born in Amirabad, Faridpur, in East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) in 1948, shortly after the foundation of the nation of Pakistan. Molla was a Muslim, a major religion among citizens of Pakistan. He graduated from Dhaka University in 1977 with a Master's Degree in Educational Administration. In 1971 he joined the paramilitary force Al-Badar, a pro-Pakistan militia group loyal to the Jamaat-e-Islami political organization. As a leader of the Al-Badar militia, he was responsible for rape and murder, killing 344 Bangladeshi people during the Bangladesh Liberation War.

After the war, Molla entered politics for the JeI organization. In 1986 and 1996 he unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Bangladeshi Parliament. Eventually, he was tried for war crimes in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 2013 in what many people believed was a politically-motivated trial. Molla was originally sentenced to life imprisonment, but his sentence was eventually changed to the death penalty. He was hanged on 12 December 2013.